Povetkin didn't duck him first, it was Wilder who wanted more experience, Povetkin gave him the option, fight me in september, or fight me next year around april. Wilder doubted a lot, but eventually chose someone else, first tried the 19 year old, later he actually fought some mailboxmaker from France. Povetkin moved on and chose Wach and even received a cut in his face and suddenly Wilder woke up and said he wanted to challange Povetkin in januari, knowing Povetkin told him september or next april. And suddenly everybody acts like it was Povetkin who ducked Wilder, no Povetkin is a man of his word and Wilder is an actor and everybody involved knows this.Undefeated49-0 wrote:Yep it's a duck by Wilder if that is his mandatory and he's chasing belts but I understand that Povetkin ducked him first. Doesn't excuse Joshua for ducking Haye (who called him out) but it's Joshua's fans that make him out to be this KO artist that will beat everyone but as soon as he's called out then it's the same old "he's too green" comment.asdfjkl wrote:It's only a duck if the fight would have made sense, if you call that a duck, he also ducked Parker, Haye, Wilder, Martin indeed, basically every boxer lol. Wilder who ducked Povetkin, that's a duck, if Wilder gives his belt away without fighting Povetkin then that's a clear duck to me. AJ is still learning, Wilder is a finished product, he won't get much better as he currently is.
In fact he fought better against Duhaupas as against Szpilka in my opinion.
We can't have it both ways, either Joshua is simply too green and is no threat to the top dogs (yet) or he's ducking them right now until he gets more seasoned (maybe they take losses and get older too) before he faces them.
It's not a one way street on this, you know? While he (Joshua) is gaining experience they are getting old, and probably more shopworn, slower and have less punch resistance, he is still young and has time to develop/get better and be more towards his prime by the time he faces them.
Joshua is a KO artist and Joshua already fought more boxrec top 100 opponends after 15 fights as Deontay Wilder has in his entire life (and KOed them all!). Also, what do you expect, AJ has only had 15 opponends and only has had 32 rounds at this moment. Mike Tyson fought 8 win, 6 lose opponends with a boxrec rating of 3 at that stage, Deontay Wilder fought a 6 win, 6 lose (a guy who currently has 8 loses in a row) opponend in his 16th match with a rating of 4. Anthony Joshua fights a guy with a boxrec rating of 144 with 16 wins, 0 loses and 13 of them on KO. Before that he fought a 21 wins 0 loses guy.
Just look at the numbers mate, AJ is from a different league as Wilder, and probably already better.
too easy